Hotel Hellmann Paderborn

... long-distance cyclist cycling from forest to forest hoping for an undisturbed sleeping spot free of charge and hopefully free of irriating animal life, no predetermined route nor a fat creditcard to help me out of my bad financial situation...

I`m being driven by my own inpulses and Nong`s voice inside my Western mind which by now has taken over the nature of this trip - instead of my free life on the bike and no plans to never return to my native Amsterdam, let my ...

... setting up the tent over the weekend, but didn't get the time. So now we just have to hope we can figure it out when we get to Calais.

... able to remain that way, but oh well, I tried. I had nested 2 suitcases into larger ones on the trip over, and only packed the inner suitcase, which meant that I had 2 large suitcases at my disposal. Good thing! So, after packing, Rita and I joined Ken and the kids and we went for a walk around the neighbourhood and up to the city's water resevoir. I think the kids were quite ready to go home and the lack of Cheerios was evident in their demeanor. The walk was ...

... listed in the entry requirements.
We have to get all the right maps, so D will be off doing that this week too.
I already have 2 sponsors in the US, and hopefully, there will be a few in the UK. E-mails to my non-work contacts are in order, I think.

1 Jahr Südamerika, jetzt ist es fast soweit. Nur noch 3 wochen bis zum Start.
Das meiste, bis auf ein paar Kleinigkeiten, ist erledigt. Die letzten 3 Tage habe ich mir ne Homepage zusammengebastelt(www.halfcap.de), ich kann nicht glauben das es Menschen gibt, die das zu ihrem Beruf machen. Auf meiner Homepage findet Ihr einen Link zu diesem Blog, ein Fotoalbum und Gästebuch.
Also, 1 Jahr Südamerika wartet auf mich ...

... University. I helped them assemble some Ikea like furniture for her apartment. We also rode on there hanging train system which was pretty interesting. We then drove out to there small town called Ramsbeck. It is in a very beautiful area with the traditional german houses it looked just like a postcard. We watched little britian in the evening ...

... beer and wine, beautiful architecture, kind people (except for the old hag waitress in Munich) and of course history!! Is there a job where I can travel wherever I want and get paid for it? Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoyed it!

... on the 6th) and we had a nice supper together us 7 girls! :) Maggie made this delicious supper called "hot pot" (I hope I spelled it right...) and we all pretty much devoured it!! hehe! Afterwards, we ended up playing our own version of pictionnary...quite hilarious I must say! Emma and Kelly were showing Cate and I how to write things in Korean and I must admit, I'm actually pretty good at it too! After that, we headed over to Jon's to hang out with ...

... money! Let's just say that was the lowest I'd ever felt in my life and felt like leaving everything behind and hopping on the next train out to fly back to Canada!! Once I had a semi good night sleep in me (I managed to fall asleep at 3:30am) I spent the next couple days getting to know my way around town, buying groceries in a supermarket where I couldn't even make out what was ham and what was the rest of the stuff, and missing my family, my friends, and especially Marc very much ...

... which each traveling craftsman wandering through Paderborn had to see. It is a motif that is also to be found in other buildings, but elsewhere is mostly smaller and less conspicuous. Also saw a rather neat metal sculpture of a peacock. On a more sobering note in the far corner of the cemetery was a part of an incendiary bomb, preserved, I think because it fell into that area and killed a young man whose grave is also there. We then headed back into the Cathedral where we ...